Locke and Key as a Movie Trilogy?

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Failed TV pilot may find a new home on the big screen.

By Max Nicholson

Last year, fans were disappointed to learn that director Mark Romanek's comic-to-TV adaptation of the graphic novel series Locke & Key would never go beyond its critically acclaimed pilot. The potential show had a lot of talent backing it at 20th Century Fox -- producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman among them -- but, alas, the project never went to series.

However, Latino-Review reports that Universal has decided to develop the franchise as a feature -- a film trilogy, in fact. What's more, Orci and Kurtzman will return to write and produce the movie.

Should the deal move forward, Locke and Key will be the second haunted house flick that Uni tackles next year; the studio also has plans to finance Guillermo del Toro's script for Crimson Peak.

Joe Hill's Locke and Key comics tell the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. It is home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...